Comments on: How to Install a Phone Jack

By: Bigfoot

Bigfoot — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:57:49 +0000

Hi,
1)What does it cost ballpark figure to run a new cable from the NID through the house for 3 jacks?

2)Does it need to be done by an certified electrician or phone company engineer?

3) Can the cable be run outside the house or will it break down fast from weather exposure. I don’t want anyone in my attic the roofers put their foot thru my ceiling and repaired it all ugly so I don’t want anything like that happening again.

Thanks a million in advance!

By: Shayne

Shayne — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:27:24 +0000

I recently signed up for verizon dsl and I need to install a Seperate phone jack so I could use it because its on an seperate account with the phone line

By: Shantel

Shantel — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:44:16 +0000

I have a question, I just recently signed up for verizon dsl services and they told me that in order for my dsl services to work I would need to install a new jack in my room or re wire the one I already have so that the number I have already will not work on it. I would like to know how would I go about doing that?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:29:12 +0000

I sure hope somebody can help me with this. I just ran a new phone jack into the living room for DSL to our computer. There are now 3 jacks in the house (bedroom, kitchen, and living room). The kitchen and living room are next to each other, but the jacks do not share a common wall. The bedroom phone jack always works. I cannot have anything plugged into the kitchen and living room jacks at the same time because neither will work. Only 1 can be plugged in at a time between those 2 rooms. To further complicate the matter, the phone jack in the living room will randomly dump the DSL signal and will not pick it back up until I pull the jack out and let it hang from the wall. I have replaced the living room phone jack once, and it worked for a week, but now it quits again. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

By: delquattro

delquattro — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:42:56 +0000

John C. has posted the exact information that I need. My jacks are the usual red, green, yellow, black, etc., but my cable, which I’m re-using, is the six pair cable. I can’t figure out which one he is referring to as the solid color. My cable appears to have a solid color next to the same color with white hashes. So, which one goes to red or green? The solid, or the one with the white hash?

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:14:41 +0000

I have a newer home, about five years old or so I think it has the six wire interface box since I have three separate phone lines. I just bought a Polycom phone which is an analog speaker phone only for my office. After hooking the Polycom up it doesn’t allow my regular desk phone, which is a Vtech corded phone with a linked cordless phone to diplay the caller id on a call waiting call. The Polycom does not have a display but does “beep” to let me know that there is a call coming in. I have tired to hook the Vtech up though the data port on the Polycom power supply but that doesn’t help. I also tried a 6-line splitter to the wall but nothing. My Vtech has an ext. jack which I hooked the Polycom to but nothing there either. Any ideas? Thanks for this great service.

By: Ben Erickson

Ben Erickson — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:21:34 +0000

Hi George,
I have some of the older modular jacks in my home, and they work fine, so I don’t think it would be that or that you have a cordless phone (though I would try an inexpensive corded one just to be sure). You might take the cover of the jack and be sure the wires are hooked up to it, then check the interface box outside to be sure the same color wires are hooked up there as well. If all appears wired properly, my next step would be to try hooking up a new jack to the existing wires. If still no go, try swapping off the existing wires at both the box and jack. Last resort would be to run a new cable from the box. Good luck!

By: george

george — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:21:29 +0000

Hi great site you have here! Here is what i am dealing with. I just had my phone service turned on today. Only 1 of the 3 phone jacks gives a dial tone to my phone when i plug the phone cord into the phone jack. All the wires in the three phone jacks are connected. Would my rechargable phone make a difference in this case? Two of the three phone jacks appear to be a bit older than the type that gives a dial tone ( wall mount type with spring retractable half moon looking swivel door)I know this could be a it might be this,this or this or that question. I have checked the obvious connection,cable/wire conditions. What other checks might be effectively applicable in sorting this no dial tone thing out? Thanks to the phone pros and non pros alike!

By: Ben Erickson

Ben Erickson — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:07:14 +0000

Hi Amy,
First check to be sure the jack in question is hooked up at the interface box to the line that has the DSL, then use the same color wires that are connected in the interface box for the phone jack.

By: amy

amy — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:01:25 +0000

I do not have a phone line (we use cell phones) however I do have DSL modem. I changed the location of my computer last night not realizing that the phone jack had to be wired different for the DSL. I took it apart tried to wire it like the other jack but they are totally different jacks. I have a jack like the picture above with the 4 screws. I belive the 2 blue wires are the ones that I use for DSL but which ones, there are 2 sets coming out of the wall and where do they go? There are 4 seperate screws Black, Red, Yello and White…I need to get up and running today as my online class starts today but I cant afford to pay Qwest $100 to come out and do 5 min worth of work.
Anyone have directions…with pictures?